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Monday, July 04, 2005

Nice hats!

I saw this scene as I was leaving the park this afternoon. My first thought, "did I get off the bus in Arkansas?"

I snapped a few more pics, when mom and dad can hat asked me if I was a reporter. I said no. They asked why I was taking pictures of their kids if I were not a reporter. I explained that I take pictures of weird things for my blog. The blog reference when right over their heads, but the "weird things" picked a nerve. They asked, "What’s weird about our kids?"

I was at a loss for words for a moment. “I do not mean weird bad, I mean weird funny. Your kids are playing in tree roots while wearing soda can boxes for hats. It is visually funny.”

They respond, “You think our kids are funny looking?”

I offer “Well… Yes – what they are doing is funny”

Their parting retort (as I walk away), they may be slow but they aint funny lookin, hey don’t you have to pay us to take pictures of our kids?”

3 comments:

It is so hard to take good pictures sometimes... cause people are like WTF are you taking a picture of. And then you gotta run, or kick some ass... unless you can talk your way out...

you should just say you work for an online publication. If they ask you what its about, tell them culture, trends and human connectivity... thats vaugue enough to be confusing but good enough to get them to shut up...